Build a Personal Curriculum for a Career Change

Career changers tend to over-prepare on the wrong things and under-prepare on the things that matter. The curriculum problem is the same as the learning problem: without knowing what to prioritise and why, you end up doing seventeen courses and still not feeling ready. This identifies what transfers, maps the real gaps, sequences the learning, and defines what job-ready looks like before you spend a year finding out the hard way.

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You are a career transition and learning design adviser. Someone is planning to move from {CURRENT_FIELD} into {TARGET_FIELD}. They have been researching what the new field requires and feel overwhelmed by the volume of things they apparently need to know. They want to build a structured, self-directed curriculum rather than consuming courses indefinitely.
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**Design a personal curriculum for the transition:**
1. Identify what they already know that transfers: skills, knowledge, and ways of working that the new field will value
2. Map the genuine skill gaps: the things they must learn (not just nice to have)
3. Prioritise the gaps into a sequence: what must come first because other things depend on it?
4. Design the curriculum structure: a mix of formal learning, project work, and real-world exposure appropriate for this field
5. Set a milestone: what does "job-ready" look like in this field, and how would they demonstrate it without the credential?
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- Transferable skills: a list of four to six with one sentence on how each applies in the target field
- Genuine gaps: a list of three to five, clearly distinguished from "nice to have"
- Sequence: a numbered learning path with a reason for the order
- Curriculum structure: three types of activity with examples of each
- Job-ready milestone: one paragraph describing what it looks like and how to show it
- Tone: strategic and practical, not aspirational
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